The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-07-14

A scrub hog eats more than a good
one. o000
Do not feed stock where the fooa
can be trampled under foot.
Do not set out strawberry plants on
ridges except on low, wet soil.
Wild mint scattered abont H.
house will rid it of rats and mice. '
For cleaning milk-cans, pans, wood.
en- utensils, etc, steam is considered
excellent.
By asserting the eggs, SEPARATING
the dark from the light color. a hioLaSn
price will be obtained for the lot.
Raw onions chopped fine and mixoa
with food twice a week, is better than
a dozen cures for chicken cholera.
Commercial fertilizers can be usod
in no way to SO good advantage as in
connection with barn-yard manure.
Cows that have no bedding arc
often injured in the knees by gettino
up or down, especially if the floor be
wet or slippery.
Peach trees growing near the house
where dish and wash water are thrown
out, are long-lived and free from
worms and disease.
An eastern farmer says that he does
not know of anything finer than a good
OK team, and that wherever you see
one you see good crops.
It has come to be an aphorism
among western farmers that the steer
is sure money, the pig quick money.
and the colt is big money.
Give the horses salt frequently with
their grain, and if a good handful of
wood ashes is added once in a while,
they will not be troubled with the
collie.
An observing writer says too often
farmers fail to realize how hard their
wives work, and how largely their
own success is the result of that
pOOrly-feQulteu IOll.
A heavy mulch, spread under apple
trees in the spring, when the soil is
full of moisture, is regarded by the
CuHavator as a prime condition of
success in apple-growing.
The wise poultry-man sends his yell
low-legged fowls to market, as such
are preferred, but the dark-legged
ones he uses on his own table, in which
respect he secures an advantage, as
the best table fowls do not have yellow
legs.
A good garden, we'll supplied with
choice varieties of vegetables and
fruits, is n of the greatest luxuries
of the farm and household. There is
no farmer but can afford to have just
such a garden no farmer can afford
to be without one. A good garden
and a good COW will 60 a long way
towards supplying the table with good,
wholesome food for the family
Mercury.
The question, "When is the proper
time to cut grass 2" is one that has
elected volumes of discussion in the
agricultural press, and that has been
subjected to elaborate scientific ex-
pertinent, and yet would seem that
this time may be located within a very
narrow margin, at least, by any we'll
informed, practical farmer. The
preference which all grazing animals
show for grass which has not yet come
to the blooming period has led to the
advocacy of very early cutting but
against this policy is the hard fact that
unless two or more cuttings are made
there must be a great loss Of feeding
material, and there has certainly been
no sufficient evidence furnished that
there is sufficient superiority in such
very early-cut grass to compensate the
great additional cost of an extra har'
vest. On the other hand, it is a fact
patent to every one who will give the
subject a little thought, that there
must be a time between the first ap'
pearance of bloom and the hardening
of he seed, when the plant vii! con-
tain the maximum amount of nutritious
matter, and when that matter will De
in such shape that 1t may all be re,
tanned in the hay, without the loss
which occurs from the SCATTERING Oh
the ripe seed or from the hardening
into woody fibre of the soft tissues Oh